Unfortunately, some customers still have the impression that because SharePoint isn’t JSR-168 compliant that it lacks some universal standard, which in fact is not correct.

2. WSRP: is an interoperability standard and a language-neutral way to request and transmit web service data. Microsoft supports services orientated architectures (SOA) and web services interoperability, by adhering to a complete set of web service specifications.

Mainsoft’s SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal extends WebSphere Portal to serve as a kind of Über-portal that aggregates all enterprise assets, including SharePoint content, such as Office document libraries; Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and 3.0; and .NET and Java applications, within a scalable environment.

Mainsoft is Optimized for Visual Studio and has been validated by IBM as ServerProven™ and Ready for WebSphere Software™.

A study completed in IBM’s Innovation Labs demonstrates that .NET applications cross compiled to Java bytecode using Mainsoft performs just as well as the original .NET application.

5. WSRP 2.0, JSR286: “Lastly, some customers have asked about JSR-268. Both JSR-286 and WSRP 2.0 are in DRAFT. It is unlikely that any enterprise software vendor can commit to supporting these in 2008. Or, that any enterprise architect can require their support for a standard that does not yet exist. (Feb 2008)”